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Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban

JUL 2, 2010 Podcast

Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban

Journalist Jere Van Dyk tells of his decades-long involvement with Afghanistan, and gives a harrowing account of his 2008 kidnapping and imprisonment by the Taliban in ...

JUL 2, 2010 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Google and State Capitalism?

Does the state capitalism model present a challenge to free market political systems? Is Google's confrontation with China a taste of the future? What do ...

JUL 2, 2010 Podcast

Activism and Policy: Prospects for Change in Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is one of the most closed societies in the world. Its media and education system are propaganda tools and all opposition is crushed. Meanwhile, ...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramananv/2523861065/" target=_blank">"Wilted"</a> by Krosstok (CC)

JUL 1, 2010 Article

The Bloom is off the Rose--and the Orange, and the Tulip

What went wrong with the "Color Revolutions" in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan? It was a combination of excessive expectations of the new leaders, and some ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37degrees/3482554236/">Romel Jacinto</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUN 30, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Migrant Detention Leads to Harm

Detention is costly in economic and human terms. If EU states wish to sustain their migration management policies, they will have to rely more on ...